{"id":30074,"date":"2026-08-04T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/vietnam-field-made-tiger-stripe-combat-vests\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:29:13","slug":"vietnam-field-made-tiger-stripe-combat-vests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/vietnam-field-made-tiger-stripe-combat-vests\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Field-Made Tiger Stripe Combat Vests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDG6eE7wrI4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Reserve your copy of &#8220;Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story&#8221; on Kickstarter today:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/tiger-stripe?ref=6ncf6e<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/tiger-stripe?ref=6ncf6e<br<\/a> \/><br \/>We are back with Owen Thornton today to talk about combat vests form Vietnam, specifically tiger stripe ones. These were not issued items; they were all made bespoke in theater &#8211; many in the tailoring shops of Saigon.<\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reserve your copy of &#8220;Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story&#8221; on Kickstarter today:https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/tiger-stripe?ref=6ncf6eWe are back with Owen Thornton today to talk about combat vests form Vietnam, specifically tiger stripe ones. These were not issued items; they were all made bespoke in theater &#8211; many in the tailoring shops of Saigon. The best firearms reference books:&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/vietnam-field-made-tiger-stripe-combat-vests\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam Field-Made Tiger Stripe Combat Vests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}